taken with any large fly, especially those of the Blue Jay 

 color. Excellent sport is occasionally had in this way 

 from off some open bridge, where the falling tide mixed 

 with the fresh water rushes furiously between the piers. 

 In other streams striped bass are taken early in the 

 season with shrimp threaded on the hook, by passing the 

 point under the back plates ; as the season advances and 

 crabs shed their coats, with the shedder crabs, and in 

 the fall with shrimp, the barred killey and the spearing. 



In fishing with shrimp — and it is a good bait all the 

 season through and must be tried when others fail — use 

 a float fastened about three feet above a swivel sinker, 

 to the lower swivel of which are to be attached two 

 distinct gut leaders, >one of three feet, the other of two. 

 Single gut, if large, round and true, is decidedly prefera- 

 ble, and the hook should have a broad, round bend. If 

 very large fish are expected — and they rarely are — use 

 No. 0, but generally No, 3 is large enough. With crab 

 the hook must be larger. We prefer always to have the 

 point of the hook covered, and recommend that the 

 shrimp should be bunched on till they hide the hook 

 entirely, and form a round, attractive bait. In June, 

 and throughout the summer the crab is a better bait 

 ordinarily than the shrimp. 



There is no unbending rule for fishing ; the only way 

 is to try all plans, and if the fish will not notice your 

 crab suspended in mid-water, take off your float and 

 swivel sinker, put on a running sinker, as it is called, 

 made like a piece of lead pipe, with a small hole in the 

 center, tie a knot in the line to prevent its going down 

 on the hooks ; use a single bait of a good sized piece of 

 crab, and cast well out from you, and let the bait lie still 

 till you feel a bite. The line being free, though the lead 

 lies on the bottom, you can feel the first touch of a fish 



